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Vets screwed again!
rawhide54
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This both a vent and warning to some of my fellow vets.
Got forced off active duty and back to the reserves before I could retire in the 1990's. Got basically two year's salary in severance. Managed to finish my career with a couple years in the reserves to earn a retirement at 60. VA said I was 30% disabled but took back the compensation until the severance I received was paid back in full then started getting a monthly compensation check. Just hit my 60th birthday and started getting my military retirement. Much to my surprise, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service informed me that they will be docking my pension to recoup the severance because the VA didn't tell them they recouped it and, once I prove the VA recouped it, the VA only recouped the amount I actually got, the net amount. It seems two years ago Congress directed DFAS to start collecting the gross amount, that is to recoup what they took in taxes and I never got. They're going to take back what they already took in taxes!!! So much for retirement!
Also, SecDef Hagel, a moron of the first degree, wants to close the military commissaries. This is what happens when you get a RINO Republican, Obama lapdog who was a bad attitude SP4 in Viet Nam running the Pentagon.
Lesson to all vets: trust NOTHING they promise you. Busted up, shot up, PTSD, retired, four rows of medals or more? Makes no difference. They will treat you like a $5 whore.
Got forced off active duty and back to the reserves before I could retire in the 1990's. Got basically two year's salary in severance. Managed to finish my career with a couple years in the reserves to earn a retirement at 60. VA said I was 30% disabled but took back the compensation until the severance I received was paid back in full then started getting a monthly compensation check. Just hit my 60th birthday and started getting my military retirement. Much to my surprise, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service informed me that they will be docking my pension to recoup the severance because the VA didn't tell them they recouped it and, once I prove the VA recouped it, the VA only recouped the amount I actually got, the net amount. It seems two years ago Congress directed DFAS to start collecting the gross amount, that is to recoup what they took in taxes and I never got. They're going to take back what they already took in taxes!!! So much for retirement!
Also, SecDef Hagel, a moron of the first degree, wants to close the military commissaries. This is what happens when you get a RINO Republican, Obama lapdog who was a bad attitude SP4 in Viet Nam running the Pentagon.
Lesson to all vets: trust NOTHING they promise you. Busted up, shot up, PTSD, retired, four rows of medals or more? Makes no difference. They will treat you like a $5 whore.
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Life is not good for anyone in uniform under the current regime. Visit your nearest installation all you hear of is RIFs, SERBs, draw downs, etc.
The government has been screwing the military for more years than I've been around. They just ain't as subtle about it now. I think the maddest I ever got was back in the 1980s. One of Ronald Reagan's boys in the Pentagon decided we needed a pay cut. He told Navy Times we had to take our cuts along with all the other welfare programs. If I remember correctly they settled for no pay raise. When you see military service as 'just another welfare program' it's easy to disregard logic.
I was in school making 4.0 grades and working full time when Uncle Sam realized so few of us left they could just cancel the promise made and eliminated the remainder of my benefit.
Hmmm wonder if they would have allowed me to just cancel my contract instead of doing the full term?
I enlisted in December of 76 got the old GI bill, when I got out I had ten years to use it for school or lose it.
I was in school making 4.0 grades and working full time when Uncle Sam realized so few of us left they could just cancel the promise made and eliminated the remainder of my benefit.
Hmmm wonder if they would have allowed me to just cancel my contract instead of doing the full term?
I'm sure you already know that answer...
There's a difference between taking your share of the cuts and breach of contract. [;)]
If anyone can show me a contract that they signed that said they would be given x amount of dollars and that money would be free and clear from any other income, then I'll consider it to be breach of contract.
Mogley's story seems to fit that definition.
Otherwise, it's just the usual story of Uncle Sugar giving, and then taking away.
If anyone can show me a contract that they signed that said they would be given x amount of dollars and that money would be free and clear from any other income, then I'll consider it to be breach of contract.
Mogley's story seems to fit that definition.
Otherwise, it's just the usual story of Uncle Sugar giving, and then taking away.
Since Uncle Sugar is the federal government they can and will do it and get away with it, and it will be enforced by any court in the land, but that makes it neither right nor legal. If any state, corporation or individual tried to pull the same trick it would be and has been reversed in court. I think when Sears does it, the courts refer to it as "Bait and Switch".
HOWEVER, in rawhide54's case, the feds are trying to recoup the same overpayment TWICE. Even the Feds won't get away with that if it's pursued.